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Author:   Dustin Stokes (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah) ,  Mohan Matthen (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto) ,  Stephen Biggs (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.842kg
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9780199832798

ISBN 10:   019983279
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   23 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

About the Editors About the Contributors New Models of Perception 1. Perceiving as Predicting Andy Clark 2. Active Perception and the Representation of Space Mohan Matthen 3. Distinguishing Top-Down From Bottom-Up Effects Nicholas Shea Multimodal Perception 4. Is Consciousness Multisensory? Charles Spence and Tim Bayne 5. Not all perceptual experience is modality specific Casey O'Callaghan 6. Is audio-visual perception 'amodal' or 'crossmodal'? Matthew Nudds The Non-Visual Senses 7. What Counts as Touch? Matthew Fulkerson 8. Sound stimulants: defending the stable disposition view John Kulvicki 9. Olfactory Objects Clare Batty 10. Confusing Tastes with Flavours Charles Spence, Malika Auvray, and Barry Smith Sensing Ourselves 11. Inner Sense Vincent Picciuto and Peter Carruthers New Issues Concerning Vision 12. The Diversity of Human Visual Experience Howard C. Hughes, Robert Fendrich and Sarah E. Streeter 13. A crossmodal perspective on sensory substitution Ophelia Deroy and Malika Auvray 14. The dominance of the visual Dustin Stokes and Stephen Biggs 15. More Color Science for Philosophers C. L. Hardin Relating the Modalities 16. Morphing Senses Erik Myin, Ed Cooke, and Karim Zahidi 17. A Methodological Molyneux Question: Sensory Substitution, Plasticity and the Unification of Perceptual Theory Mazviita Chirimuuta and Mark Paterson 18. The Space of Sensory Modalities Fiona Macpherson 19. Distinguishing the Commonsense Senses Roberto Casati, Jérôme Dokic, and François Le Corre Index

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'It is partly the diversity of this anthology that will make it a very useful read for someone looking for a topic on which to write a PhD thesis in the philosophy of perception. But it will also be useful for such a reader because Perception and its Modalities makes clear how much work there is left to do in this area of philosophy... --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

'It is partly the diversity of this anthology that will make it a very useful read for someone looking for a topic on which to write a PhD thesis in the philosophy of perception. But it will also be useful for such a reader because Perception and its Modalities makes clear how much work there is left to do in this area of philosophy..."" --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

Author Information

Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen, and Stephen Biggs are philosophers of mind who work on a range of related issues, including sense modalities and their interaction, perception and cognition, problems of consciousness, and methods of reasoning. They collaborate on these and other philosophical topics, and also work closely with empirical researchers in the cognitive sciences.

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